It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Recreation and Sports
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Recreation and Sports
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Recreation and Sports I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Recreation and Sports
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Recreation and Sports In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Recreation and Sports
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Recreation and Sports
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Recreation and Sports I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Recreation and Sports I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Rodney Dangerfield Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Recreation and Sports I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
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-- Dick Martin Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Recreation and Sports I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Recreation and Sports
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Recreation and Sports At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Recreation and Sports
